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ἄησις

Third declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ἄησις

Structure: ἀησι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: a)/hmi

Sense

  1. a blowing

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ δ’ οὐδὲν ἡμῖν ἐν γένει πεφυκότεσ, πάλαι παρόντεσ, οἳ μὲν ἐν χωστοῖσ τάφοισ κεῖνται πεσόντεσ, πίστισ οὐ σμικρὰ πόλει, οἳ δ’ ἔν θ’ ὅπλοισι καὶ παρ’ ἱππείοισ ὄχοισ ψυχρὰν ἀήσιν δίψιόν τε πῦρ θεοῦ μένουσι καρτεροῦντεσ, οὐκ ἐν δεμνίοισ πυκνὴν ἄμυστιν ὡσ σὺ δεξιούμενοι. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambics13)

Synonyms

  1. a blowing

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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